Improvement in metallic handles



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JAMES HATTON, OF YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN METALLIC HANDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 73,804, dated January 2B, 186B.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that l, JAMES HAT'roN, ofthe city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement; in Metallic File-Handles; and I do hereby declare YVthat the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanyin gdrawings, forming part of this specifica-tion.

This invention relates toa new and improved method of constructing tile-handles and handles used for similar purposes, whereby files or Screwdrivers and other tools of a similar nature of different sizes may be used without changing the handle, and whereby the tool is much more securely fastened in the handle, while the handle itself is indestructible.

Theinvention consists in making the handle of metal in two parts and in packing the handle with some elastic material for holding the file or other tool, and in fastening the parts together, as will be hereinafter described.

- Figure l is a view ot' the handle complete. Fig. Z is a cross-section ot' the saine through the line x. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section ot' Fig. l through the line y y.

Similar letters ot' reference indicate spending parts.

The handle is hollow and cast or swaged in two parts, A and B. These parts are fastened together by a screw-nut or ferrule, O, and by a screw, D, as seen in dotted lines, Fig. 1.

There is also a steady-pin in the butt-end of the handle, as seen atf.

In the neck of the handle there is a recess for the shank of the le or other article, which is packed with leather or some other elastic material, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3. The elasw ticity of this packing prevents the shank of the le or other article from working out, while the packing itself is fastened in its place by the enlarged portion g, which tits into the recess in the handle.

These handles may be either cast ot brass or iron, or they may be swaged out of sheet metal; and it will be seen that a. handle may be made in this manner so that almost every sized file or screw-driver or other tool of a similar kind will lit.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Oonstructing handles for files, screw-drivers, and for other purposes, of metal with elastic packing, substantiallyin the manner herein shown and described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 10th day ot'June, 1867.

JAMES HATTON.

Witnesses:

WM. F. MCNAMARA, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

